What do you think – is this knife rest from Third Drawer Down a great birthday present for the man who has everything and is a demon in the kitchen? Or just a bad idea? Answers quickly please… we’re running out of time!
Check it out on www.culturelabel.com
These new kinetic sculptures strike a delicate balance between the whimsical and the sturdy, with a Barbara Windsor wink thown in for good measure. Plus, they’re coming soon to our very own one-stop-culture shop, CultureLabel.com.
Since the construction of the Arab World Institute, with its light-regulating apertures that evoked Islamic design, he has built his reputation around buildings inspired by the Middle East. This latest space, summoning a flow of culture – from East to West, from tradition to modernity – is hailed as the zenith of his achievment.
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THE ROLE
CultureLabel.com is seeking a bright all-rounder with a deep passion for the internet to help us create and deliver a social media strategy that ramps up our site traffic.
This role is intended to leverage social media opportunities and our existing community base to drive our customer acquisition, increase repeat purchase patterns, increase conversion and reduce churn. It involves a mix of social media, content, online PR and email marketing, and primarily will be focussed on the launch of our innovative new site in June 2010.
This is a truly excellent opportunity to make your mark and take charge of an exciting brand that has already punched far above its weight in offline PR.
THE CANDIDATE
This role provides an excellent opportunity for someone with experience under their belt already, but who is looking to grow their level of responsibility. You will take full responsibility for CultureLabel’s social media and must therefore be able to hit the ground running. You must have commercial social media experience and be able to provide examples of your work. Your role will be extremely hands-on and be able to balance strategic vision with measurable delivery.
THE COMPANY
The new high street, as imagined by the world’s best museums, galleries and artists.
CultureLabel.com is your one-stop-culture-shop, bringing you an edit of products currently available from over 90 leading museum shops, galleries, artists and culture institutions from around the world. Our partners include leaders such as Tate, V&A, Saatchi Gallery, Whitechapel Gallery and many more.
We’ve hunted far and wide to help satisfy your cravings for unique products that stand out. Every item is handpicked by our arts partners – the masters of curation – and many are artist-designed or limited edition.
By buying directly from our trusted arts partners, your purchases have an inherent integrity, authenticity and of course, design quality – “products with soul”, as we like to call them.
“An emporium of desirables” – Vogue
“CultureLabel.com does the visiting, the curating and the editing for us… A host of possible presents, each one with some real connection to the institution it comes from.” – FT How to Spend It
“Can you think of anywhere else can get hold of a sheepskin flying helmet and a remote-controlled T-Rex with just a few clicks of a mouse? Thought not. Happy browsing.” – Esquire
“Gift-tastic!” – The Sunday Times
“Our Favourite Shop – Browse a whole range of museum shops…and shop from home. This is obviously a Good Thing.” – Maxim
TASKS
FURTHER INFORMATION
We’re initially starting with a three-month contract, to begin as soon as possible, but could be open to extending it depending on your performance in that initial period.
If you are interested in applying for this role, or would like further information, please send your CV and examples of your work to Sophie Gaskill, Communications Director by email at socialmedia@culturelabel.com.
Links:
www.CultureLabel.com – culture retail platform
www.CultureLabel.com/blog – culture meets consumer culture blog
www.CultureLabel.com/release – product development competition with Tate and Wallpaper*
Follow us at www.twitter.com/culturelabel
If you’re looking for something to do over the Easter weekend then head down to the ever-on-the-pulse Idea Generation Gallery for another of their popcultural extravaganzas. Having previously shown cute hand-drawn creatures (Monster’s Ink) and auctioned the entire contents of a jilted lover’s home (John ‘Hoppy’ Hopkins), this time the gallery is presenting a unique exhibition uncovering the career of Storm Thorgerson – the prolific producer of some of the most recognisable imagery of the modern world. Responsible for what has been dubbed as one the greatest album covers of all time – Pink Floyd’s 1973 The Dark Side of the Moon – Storm’s other collaborations with Genesis, Led Zeppelin and Muse litter bedrooms across the globe (and therefore deserve their place in history).
Idea Generation Gallery 2nd April – 2nd May.
The V&A might be (one of) the last places most (normal) people would associate with sex however the museum’s recent collaboration with Liberty could change all that. One thing the saucily curated collaboration has managed to do, since its unveiling last Friday, is elevate the medium of textiles to risqe new heights. Could the new Liberty / V&A window display be a bid to reposition quilts as the thinking woman’s come-hither bed livery? Is quilting the new patchwork? We hope so, we love a good quilt.
Reg: All right, but apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?
Attendee: Brought Peace?
Reg: Oh Peace- shut up!
(Life of Brian, 1979)
Ok so the Romans brought us sanitation, medication, education and wine but now The Roman Baths have bought us a stunning venue for cultural shopping! Check out these pics (and definitely check out the baths too).
In the nineties we experienced boy band revival and words were what they sang about, and the by the end of the noughties ‘word’ replaced truth expressing a promise made or a bond shared. The importance of well ‘words’ is celebrated during all the whole month of March at the London Word Festival. Events include poetry reading, print making, jazz, puppetry and stand- up comedy; and ‘words’ is what these events will be paying tribute to.
Reading over this blog post I notice my vocabulary is to say the least limited. I must be out of words?
The festival runs from the 7th of March to the 1st April 2010. Have a look at the programme here.
All it took was a handful of celebrities to promise that Acai was great for the skin, follow this up with a buzz concerning the weight miracles the berry performs and all of us mortals became hooked to this black thick substance with a slightly bitter taste that originates from the depths of the Amazon. With so many people consuming it, it’s no wonder the Acai juice and Acai cream manufacturers have had their ‘green’ conscience playing up.
For Earth Day 2010 Kiehl’s has teamed up with Jeff Koons, Pharrell Williams, Julianne Moore and Malia Jones to design and produce Limited Edition Acai Spray bottles. The logic behind it is simple buy it, collect it and re- use it! Besides urging consumers to recycle Kiehl is going a step further, the company plans to donate $200, 000 USD of the proceeds of the sales to rainforest alliance via essence.
This plan works for everyone from the very vein, the arty type to the rainforest fighter. At CL we are already talking about which bottle we would like to buy, and I think I will be going for the Koons!
If you’re keen on jazz you’ll be over the moon to hear that inspirational trumpeter, Tomasz Stanko, is returning to London following a sold out London Jazz Festival concert, with a new project.. The audiovisual extravaganza celebrates the seminal work of Komeda, whose intensely melodic film scores included landmark movie Rosemary’s Baby.
CultureLabel.com has two tickets to the concert on the 27th March at The Barbican. To lay your hands on them just send an email to feedback@culturelabel.com with Tomasz Stanko in the subject line and don’t forget to leave us your contact details.
CL xx
Artist Chris Ofili’s use of elephant in his art has in the past caused something of an uproar. And, this weekend, roar is exactly what Tate Britain is asking young people with its programme ‘Bring the Noise’!
Curated by Charlie Dark, ‘Bring the Noise’ champions a new wave of London creativity, celebrated for its ability to absorb culture from around the world, remix it and spit it out in new forms. The ten strong collective have been picked as individuals or entities that push boundaries with their work in the same way as Chris Ofili. Check them all out here.
As Tate Britain has very kindly created a special youth ticket so that anyone under the age of 26 can get in for £5 (usual price £10/ £8.50 concessions), there’s no reason not to head on down to Tate Britain and make some noise!
Here at CultureLabel we are fans of fresh blood (not to mention sausage) and so we were delighted to welcome emerging talent Dave Anderson AKA Blood Sausage to the CultureLabel.com team last week.
Dave’s first challenge? To design a series of cards for Mother’s Day… she won’t have seen these in Hallmark.
